pritine-tar data

[christophe.monniez@fccu.be (Christophe Monniez)]

Le dimanche 05 juin 2011 ? 14:12 +0200, Julien Valroff a ?crit :
> Hi,
> 
> While working on several packages, I have noticed that upstream tarballs
> were incorreclty imported to pristine-tar, leading to the following warning
> when using git-buildpackage:
> 
>   gbp:warn: Unknown compression type of Adding pristine-tar version 0.20., assuming gzip
> 
> This means gpb cannot detect which compression format to use to re-generate
> the upstream tarball (and falls back to gzip). gbp --git-compression option
> could be used, but then, it's up to the maintainer to guess the compression
> format.
> 
> I am not sure why gbp fails to detect this format, I haven't been able to
> find how it tries to guess it (not enquire so much though).
> 
> Do you use git-import-orig with i --pristine-tar option to automatically do
> this job?
> 

I use the method described here:
http://documentation.debian-projects.org/other/debian-packaging-git/
Mainly the "4.3 Adding new Upstream version"  point.


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Christophe Monniez <christophe.monniez at fccu.be>